Empire in Black and Gold (Shadows of the Apt Book 1)

this: we are but men, no less nor more than other men, and we strive and feel joy and fail as men have always done. We live in the darkness that is the birthright of us all, that of hurt and ignorance, only sometimes . . . sometimes there comes the sun.’

even the vast Commonweal could bear it no longer. They have forced the signing of a surrender